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Whether you enjoy it served alongside runny poached eggs and hollandaise sauce in the classic breakfast dish, eggs royale or simply slide it into a sandwich or bagel with a blanket of cream cheese and a drop of lemon juice, there’s no denying the exquisite taste and appeal of fresh salmon. While fresh salmon can be sourced throughout the UK and beyond, Scottish smoked salmon is widely regarded as the best quality of salmon available worldwide.
However, as Scottish smoked salmon is a highly perishable product, it needs to be transported from sea to plate as quickly as possible. Typically, Scottish salmon live in fresh water for one to four years before migrating north to the the North Atlantic.
This is just one reason why it often pays to buy fresh salmon online, although there are several justifications for ditching supermarket-bought smoked salmon in favour of the online equivalent. Read on to find out why you should consider buying smoked salmon online.
Why you should buy fresh salmon online
Prompt delivery
When you order fresh salmon online, you can usually be confident it’ll arrive promptly and securely. Normally, smoked salmon will be kept chilled and placed in insulated packaging to ensure it stays cool during delivery and reaches you in perfect condition.
Most online smoked salmon suppliers suggest allowing around 48 hours for your fresh salmon to reach you after it’s been dispatched.
Sustainable fishing techniques
Fresh salmon bought online from a reputable supplier will usually have been farmed more sustainably than the salmon you might find sitting on supermarket shelves.
Take the well-known Scottish smoked salmon supplier, Uig Lodge for example. Uig Lodge strives to ensure the sustainability of wild salmon and sea trout stocks by smoking only the finest quality farmed fish from sustainable and RSPCA-accredited fish farms and by encouraging conservation techniques like ‘catch and release’ on their own river, ensuring thousands of eggs still remain at the end of each salmon season. Not only does this help to encourage the highest ethical standards possible, but it also helps to ensure a better quality of fresh salmon.
Simply the best
When you buy fresh salmon online, you can be confident you’ll be paying for the best quality of salmon money can buy. For example, Uig Lodge smoked salmon is made using only prime Scottish Atlantic salmon from RSPCA-accredited farms. Each fish is treated independently during the smoking process, which is done entirely by hand. After the salmon is filleted, it’s cured in salt for several hours before being washed and transferred to the kiln. Once dry, the salmon is smoked over smouldering oak chips to produce that irresistible smoky flavour we know and love so well.
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